Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 19, No 12
Articles in this issue
- A comic Christmas poem by Carolyn Wells in which inanimate household objects ask Santa for whimsical gifts, opening Abbot Bassett's December editorial scrap-book column.
- Account of the Veteran Wheelmen of Philadelphia's October 23, 1921 run to the William Penn Hotel, with 15 riders meeting at Valley Green on the Wissahickon and 62 men dining; speeches by William R. Tucker, J. Rhea Craig and Thomas Hare, and a note that Pennsylvania has overtaken Massachusetts in L.A.W. membership through the booster work of W. L. Lockwood, C. H. C. Cunningham and Marriott C. Morris.
- Describes the Veeder Manufacturing Co. of Hartford's working miniature model machine shop exhibited at the Boston Textile Exposition (Oct. 31-Nov. 5), complete with power house, freight cars, lathes and Veeder counters on every machine.
- A humorous Kipling-parody Christmas poem on the burdens of gift-buying and exchanging presents.
- A reprinted N.Y. Sun comic dialogue in which a Professor explains to his offended wife Isolde that he saved secretly to buy her a bicycle, arguing the bicycle's return is the best safeguard against automobile riders losing the use of their legs.
- Editorial arguing the dirt road is being abandoned in city and country alike as farmers, now reliant on the automobile and town markets, become advocates of paved pike roads.
- Reflects on cyclists' sociability and the fraternal fellowship of the League, and how winter's inclement weather drives members to the social entertainment of the many bicycle clubs.
- Quotes the Irish Cyclist objecting to numbered roads as a source of confusion, contrasting them with the simpler Massachusetts system of colored painted rings on telegraph poles to mark state thoroughfares.
- A light verse cataloguing the sudden friendliness of janitors, postmen, cooks and elevator boys as Christmas approaches, closing the editorial column.